Life is full of effervescent wonders, little random and amusing moments that come and go like leaves in fall. However, through the magic of the internet, we can not only save and share our own stories, but we have literally thousands of similar moments from others to scroll through on a rainy day.
So we’ve gathered hilarious, relatable and sometimes just downright dumb posts from X (formerly Twitter) to help you chuckle a bit this week. Get comfortable as you scroll through, upvote your favorites and be sure to share your own thoughts in the comments section down below.
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Well he's definitely a keeper. I mean, you've got to keep him to get him back for that haven't you.
It would still be carrying a briefcase on the way home
Load More Replies...And we thought the automatic doors in Hitchhiker's Guide were literary exaggeration. Turns out they were a prediction.
The one I usually say "shut up" to is the stupid self-checkout machine in my supermarket, that has to greet you ( "Welcome to [store]! If you have your club card, scan it now!" ) EVERY time you get close enough to it to trigger its sensor. Including if you're walking past machine #1 to use machine #2. And, even more annoying, the instant you finish paying and take your receipt. ( "Welcome to [store]!" -- "You just said that, dumb@$$." )
"stfu you little xxx" is more accurate, but thank you very much for bringing this very important matter to the table! 🫡
So someone else does it too? We get ads for this law office that has been around forever (all family of course) and I yell "yeah we know, your family has been chasing ambulances for over 50 years, blah blah blah" as I mute it.
Load More Replies...Quite. I watch YouTube on the Brave browser and don't get any.
Load More Replies...In 2006, when Twitter launched with its now-iconic 140-character limit, many dismissed it as a gimmick. How could anything meaningful be communicated in such a ridiculously constrained space? A century earlier, telegrams charged by the word, forcing people to compress their thoughts into expensive brevity.
Twitter made that constraint free and universal, and something unexpected happened: instead of stifling communication, the limitation unleashed a tidal wave of linguistic creativity that would reshape how we use language online.
Oui, monsieur (or madame or mafamoiselle I can’t think of a gender neutral one rn) je m’appelle Poirot, the great detective! Et toi?
Load More Replies...You... you do know that French is one of the three major languages spoken in Belgium, yes?
Load More Replies...You can only watch washing machine for so long, sometimes you go for the more subtle and intellectual sparkle water.
It works, keeps their minds off stress and helps them forget their worries. Straight up panic will do that for you.
I .... oh h*ll, not my circus, not my monkeys. If you are frightened by the bird; do not upset the bird!
Not all Americans are awful and very few of them deserve to die.
Load More Replies...Spoken like a person who has never annoyed a goose. Your day will come.
Load More Replies...The character limit, expanded to 280 characters in 2017 but still remarkably brief, seems almost sadistic in an age of long-form content and endless scrolling. You can't develop nuanced arguments, tell detailed stories, or explore complex ideas in a space barely longer than a text message. Yet this apparent weakness became Twitter's greatest strength, transforming users into digital poets forced to distill thoughts to their absolute essence.
One of my focus medications Has more caffeine in a single dose than a mug of black roast- I feel this post
Worked rock n roll for a bit, 4 caffeine pills and still waiting for something to kick in.
Load More Replies...They are going to discover garlic all over the backyard if they are not careful.
Another benefit is that having garlic in the garden keeps the vampires even farther from the door.
Garlic: "I'll protect you from the Hooded Claw , Keep the Vampires from your door" . . .
Load More Replies...Come on this is not difficult. The person said they were never going to *buy* garlic again. They had found out how easy it is to grow, and would be doing that in the future. They made no claims about inventing agriculture.
It's them calling it a "hack" that is annoying, clickbaity though the term has become.
Load More Replies...This phenomenon isn't new. Throughout history, constraints have paradoxically enabled creativity rather than hindering it. Haiku masters perfected entire worlds in seventeen syllables. Sonnet writers created timeless works within rigid rhyme schemes and meters. The Oulipo literary movement deliberately imposed bizarre restrictions on their writing, like Georges Perec's novel "A Void," written entirely without the letter 'e'. These artificial limitations forced creators to think differently, to find novel solutions, and to innovate within boundaries that initially seemed impossible.
A workman building a fence in our yard cut our buried telephone line. The next day he came to our door and said, "I've been calling you all morning but couldn't get through." We said "You mean on the telephone line you cut yesterday?" He said "Oh". Later that month (after the line was fixed), a company putting a sprinkler system cut it in a different place. The foreman said "Don't worry - we'll take care of everything. Our office is calling the phone company. We'll call to let you know when they're coming out." We said "You'll call us on that telephone line you just cut?" and he said "Oh".
One I reported I smell gas in our apartment; called the gas company helpline and they sent out the guy who also rang the doorbell.
Cop knocked on our door and said she was hoping our doorcam had caught something across the street. In my head I was wondering how she knew we hadn't connected it properly yet because it looked good. Clearly she had tried ringing the doorbell only to find we only answered when she knocked. Everything was fine.
"Nobody goes there anymore, it's too crowded." -- Yogi Berra ( allegedly ).
"I didn't say everything I said." - Yogi Berra
Load More Replies...I'm sure his plan is to take them out, not put them in.
Load More Replies...Twitter's character limit operates on the same principle. When you can't ramble, you must choose every word carefully. You learn to cut mercilessly, to find the sharpest way to express an idea, to trust your audience to fill in gaps. This forced economy of language has created an entirely new linguistic style that prioritizes impact over elaboration, wit over wordiness, and punch over padding.
There's a website/app called 'find my bus', and it shows you where the buses are in realtime. I love having it running in a tab on my computer, and leaving it overnight. In the morning, the buses and trains run at super speed. It's brilliant watching the train travel across the bay (no bridges involved). It makes me smile.
there is a similar website for planes. It shows you on a world map where a certain flight is at the moment. I remember a flight with the number 666 going to Australia in slow motion
Load More Replies...I get this - old sat nav - going over the (relatively new) Queensferry crossing. I can flyyyyy.
tina and gene from bobs burgers . yuo can NOT tell me otherwise
The most obvious manifestation of this creativity is the art of the perfect tweet. It might be a joke with impeccable timing, an observation so relatable it feels like the author read your mind, or a turn of phrase so clever you need to read it twice. The best tweets achieve what longer pieces often can't: they stick in your brain, get quoted in conversation, and spread virally because they're memorable precisely because they're condensed.
As a future Librarian, I would accept it and make a library card for the dog. I don't think I should be in-charge of issuing the library cards.
Greetings to "Future Librarian" from "Current Librarian!" Lol
Load More Replies...My husband says I'm asking for trouble, but how often in life does the opportunity arise to say that *itler wouldn't have wanted four-eyed people in the gene pool, to a racist who wears glasses.
i remind my local racists and neonazis regularly that the fact that their mother and sister are the same woman would put them into the concentration camp right next to all the "inferior" races they hate so much
Load More Replies...Someone had pink balloons in their cubicle for a birthday, next week I thought they'd all popped but one. Turned out to be Andy's head.
The limitation has also spawned entirely new forms of creative expression. Thread culture emerged as users discovered they could chain tweets together to tell longer stories while maintaining the punchy, digestible format that makes Twitter readable. A well-crafted thread delivers information in bite-sized pieces, each tweet a miniature cliffhanger that pulls you to the next. It's serialized storytelling for the attention-deficit age, and when done well, it's remarkably effective.
As a professional window cleaner, dawn is the best. (Windex only for spot checks).
I was an apprentice for a one armed window washer. My job was to wrong out his sponges for him. He was afraid of heights so specialised in bungalows.
Load More Replies...joke all you want but dawn dish soap is literally one of the best all purpose cleaners around. floor got tracked in mud? dawn on a sponge with hot water. stain on your shirt? dawn and a good scrub. motor oil on your hands, lather with dawn. dog got fleas? wash in dawn. kid got lice? wash in dawn. duck covered in oil? believe it or not, dawn.
As a person involved with cat rescue, I wish Dawn was available in my country. It always gets touted as a great kitten shampoo when they come in with fleas and are too young to get medicated.
As far as I'm aware, you don't wash the kitten in it, you make a ring of soap around their neck, so the fleas can't run to the kitten's face while you wash them off- I could be wrong though, as I have never had a kitten with fleas!
Load More Replies...Wait, Ivory has dish soap? I thought they only made hand soap. (Please, please don’t tell me you clean your dishes with hand soap.) ETA: Well, I’ll be d*mned. Never seen it in a store before in my life, but it exists.
Load More Replies...As someone from the UK, I wonder what toxins are in Dawn which means they have never ventured to sell their product here
I use it to clean my ducks all the time , but it's hard to clean the dishes with ducks in the sink.
I use diluted dish soap to wash our dog, especially if there's some stuff stuck at her b*m. Does the job, doesn't irritate and washes off easily. Dog shampoos are needless.
The reason it has a duck on the bottle is that it is used to remove grease and oil spills from animals (had to use it on a cat once that jumped into a bucket of oil). Dawn will dry out the pet's coat and can cause allergic reactions. Any shampoo will k**l fleas if it sits long enough. I've seen too many skin reactions from things like Tide detergent to Dawn dishwashing soap. Would you use it on your own body? Even for stuck stuff?
Load More Replies...The first time my kitten went outside, she was frightened by the breeze! To this day it may have been the funniest thing I've ever witnessed.
I often use this phrase, but finish it with "but I don't know what it is" and do you know, nobody laughs. I wonder why.
Load More Replies...To charge your phone or laptop or anything really. You got them on trains and longer distance busses
Load More Replies...Wait they have plug sockets in trains bloody hell lol , n I want that lamp plz it’s lush
Twitter has become a laboratory for linguistic innovation. Users have developed countless tricks to maximize their character efficiency. Abbreviations and acronyms that would be considered lazy in other contexts become elegant solutions on Twitter. The ampersand makes a comeback. Oxford commas get sacrificed. Numbers replace words. Slashes do double duty. These aren't signs of declining literacy but rather evidence of linguistic evolution happening in real time, as millions of users collectively figure out how to communicate more with less.
"...and that's why I k.i.l.l.e.d him, Your Honor." ~~ "Justifiable homicide. Case dismissed."
Hopefully it’s a joke nickname 🤞🏼. The original meaning was when a man was married to multiple women and they were all sisters so their roles in the household were sisters and wives. I think it now means any wives currently married to the same man in a polygamous relationship and they don’t need to be related. There are a few religions and cultures where that is okay within them. #3 means that she was probably the third woman married to him but thinks she’s #1 in his heart (his favourite)
Load More Replies...Of course I had to pull up the calculator app to see if it’s true.
State it in binary. 110011 is divisible by 10001, but no one's going to take the time to check.
The platform has also popularized entirely new punctuation and formatting styles. The lack of formatting options forced users to get creative with capitalization, spacing, and punctuation to convey emphasis and tone. ALL CAPS for yelling. *asterisks* for emphasis. Strategic line breaks for dramatic effect. The intentional lack of punctuation to convey breathless excitement or stream of consciousness rambling. These innovations have spread beyond Twitter, influencing how people write across all digital platforms.
His skin looks like he died 2 days ago and was kept in a damp place...
He looks like a dead Martian from the end of the 1953 'War of the Worlds' movie.
Is that ' The Hulk' by any chance ? If so, it will heal in a few minutes.
Wordplay and linguistic creativity have flourished within Twitter's constraints. Puns, double meanings, and clever constructions become even more satisfying when they're achieved within strict limits. The platform has birthed countless viral formats and linguistic games: "Describe yourself in three fictional characters." "Your life is a movie, what's the title?" "Summarize [complex topic] badly." These formats work precisely because the constraint forces creative and often hilarious compression of ideas.
See, I liked it when I finished it, but upon reflection… I mean, I don’t hate it, but so much just didn’t make sense, and the reveal of what was happening was lame and random. It was well-acted though.
Load More Replies...I had a pretty good sandwich today. It had burrata, pistachio pesto, sun-dried tomatoes, arugula, and some olive oil. The bread was a bit too hard/crunchy though. That is all. Carry on. I just wanted to mention my sandwich.
Load More Replies...There was a commercial in the 70s when the husband comes home from his low paying job and yells at his wife, "Sandwiches again???" I could never understand why sandwiches for dinner was a bad thing.
The word for this is dysania. "The chilly weather made my dysania much worse."
Of course, the character limit has downsides. Nuance suffers. Complex ideas get oversimplified. Context disappears. Misunderstandings proliferate when subtlety must be sacrificed for brevity. The constraint that enables creativity can also enable reductive, hot takes, and the flattening of complex issues into false binaries. Not everything worth saying fits in 280 characters, and pretending otherwise has contributed to some of the internet's most toxic discourse.
Door handles in China are at a level that does this to me all the time, bags or more often sleeves. Never experienced it elsewhere.
I'm sure there's a perfectly sensible reason or three, but I'm going to go for managers.
This is San Diego, CA. There is a Notre Dame Avenue there.
Load More Replies...On one hand, they look cool and refreshing. On the other hand, eewwww!
Oh no! I’ve found something we disagree on! What if the coleslaw isn’t very mayo-y?
Load More Replies...No silly lmao mayonnaise 😂🤦♀️which if frozen is freaking vile 🤮
Load More Replies...You start one of these, and chew, by the time you've finished chewing that first bite, the popsicle has melted.
You have therefore failed this stage of the interview as Jamie Oliver is a absolute twonk
Wouldn't trust a Jamie Oliver recipe to be anything but an instruction on what not to do. The Uncle Roger's videos on Jamie's cooking are hilarious and deeply concerning
She's really lucky, a human checked her application instead of an algorithm
That is a comprehensive declaration of your feelings on 5-9-25. Mark Twain could not have said it better.
26th October: "bought a metalwork octopus with a top hat and monocle holding a cup of tea"
Winnie the Pooh only wears a shirt and nothing else. So in between the shower and being fully clothed, this person finds themselves in a state of being dressed like Winnie the Pooh.
Load More Replies...But the capitalization and spelling are correct (barring 'wats'), so, One lesson at a time. Definitely a passing grade.
Load More Replies...I try to avoid going under the covers because of the lingering farty smell - lesson learned in 20 years relationship 😂🙈
The second version is her walking in front and looking back with a smile. Preferably at a beach
I guess they just tell their spouse they are going to the office and leave.
Nope. It's a Red Fancy apple. You can mix with cinnamon and sugar and bake, they're wonderful!
Load More Replies...Some years ago they sold auch around Halloween, they were to sour for my taste, so i made apple cake of them. Came out rosé and not too sweet. Looked like rose petals. Should be a thing for valentines day.
It's also further away, which helps relax the eyes.
Load More Replies...Oh, that's the 'something not right' about that small town. (And the small town is Haven, Maine, for those of you who remember...)
Load More Replies...Isn't it illegal to have the fruit pie without ice cream? And if not, why not?
I don't like adding cream or ice cream to most desserts, because it detracts from the flavour
Load More Replies...I don't know why and don't believe in Feng Shui, but yes, the right one somehow looks better.
Load More Replies...I know a teenager who arranged their room according to feng shui. The wardrobe was across the internal door. How do you intend to get in and out of your room? The window was the answer. Good luck doing that to get to the bathroom at night.
Sounds like the teenager *tried* to use feng shui, but didn't quite get it right. You don't put a wardrobe across the door. That is unless you want to keep your room private but don't have a lock on the door.
Load More Replies...The right one is better because you can open the case to get one of whatever it is without having to take the case right out.
box on bottom right tall can on middle left short can on upper right.
I REALLY REALLY wanna know what happens when they cut it open now.
Oral-B geht auf den kalifornischen Zahnarzt und Parodontologen Dr. Robert William Hutson (1920 – 2001) zurück, der 1949/1950 eine neuartige Zahnbürste mit weichen und abgerundeten Bürsten aus dem damals noch recht neuen Kunststoff Nylon entwickelte. Dem Zahnarzt war aufgefallen, dass viele seiner Patienten ihre Zähne wegen der damals üblichen harten Borsten nicht oder nicht richtig putzten. 1951 gründete Hutson gemeinsam mit Paul E. Bahr und John Murphy in Santa Clara/California die Firma Oral B. »Oral« bedeutet auf lateinisch »Mund« und das ursprüngliche Kürzel B-60, dass die Bürste sechzig Borsten (engl. bristle) hatte. In den 1950er Jahren verkaufte Oral-B bereits jedes Jahr mehr als fünf Millionen Zahnbürsten, anfangs hauptsächlich in Zahnarztpraxen. Nachdem die Gründer sich in den 1960er Jahren aus ihrer Firma zurückgezogen hatten, wechselte Oral-B mehrmals den Besitzer (Weco, Chemway, Cooper Laboratories). Hutson arbeitete nach dem Verkauf seiner Anteile wieder als Zahnarzt
Ich hab diesen Kommentar gelesen und mich gewundert, warum das Englisch so komisch klingt. Ja lol, ist ja Deutsch. Moin!
Load More Replies...The "B" in Oral-B stands for Brush. The name was originally a short way to say "Oral-Brush" to emphasize that the product was designed to clean the entire oral cavity, not just the teeth.
wrong; I tapped for £2.5k of wedding rings in a jewelry shop last weekend
Load More Replies...Instead of 'Put a Tiger in Your Tank', "Put Taco Bell in Your Tank!"
Load More Replies...That kid gonna get 40 (!!) dollars per tooth?! What is this, tooth inflation?
My mother gave my sister $20 once because she had no change. Very bad precedent to be setting lol.
Load More Replies...I remember getting a quarter! That meant I could get 5 Peppermint Patties the size of a coffee saucer. But you had to buy them separately because sakes tax kicked in at 10 cents. Even at the age of10 the accountant in me was developing.
I remember getting the smaller York peppermint patties at our local Sonny’s after Sunday lunch for 25¢ a pop in the 90s. The 90s were pretty great, but wow, even then the inflation was impressive.
Load More Replies...FORTY DOLLARS? I would get a quarter. I mean, I thought that was cheap, but I just thought it should be a dollar.
It might be Zimbabwean dollars for all we know. Back in the day, we used to get 25 or 50 Liras, and it was the price of a one-scoop or two-scoops icecream, not the equivalent of £50!
Load More Replies...My favorite is "Help!!! I'm being held prisoner in a fortune cookie factory!"
Have Mr Gruber as Morpheus and Mr Curry as Agent Smith and I'd watch it!
LMAO!! Caught off guard. Just the way to end my workday and BP exploration for the evening.
I loved starting from scratch... Enough that 40 years later, I kind of wish that I had the opportunity to do it again. If I could empty my home of everything lacking sentimental value and make it through "one piece at a time" again, I am convinced that my life would be and feel less cluttered... physically and emotionally.
W*F IS THAT TRASH like really w*f is it ? I wouldn’t even feed my cat that ,even if I had one eugh
Real-life The Sims. Introduce, small talk, small talk, flirt, flirt, flirt, ask to be a partner, woohoo, move in together, Try to have a baby.
Took me too long to work out those were dates, not 6 out of 25 etc. US confusing me again.
That should be asked *after* you get the job, no more than one week later
Greg the Sorcerer is someone who posts as if they were an actual sorcerer, and they're pretty funny. A lot of really good photoshop, but I don't know if they do it themself or find funny pictures.
Load More Replies...I did that at work once, it caught a few people (nobody in my team, they just said "Auntriarch's in this morning then"). And yes I did clean it up after
No kidding. The weather forecast said nothing either. I wasn't warned.
That's why it's good having a savings account that you can only take money out of by sending a redemption form by email. Easier to weigh up priorities.
Translation: 25.5°. No wonder there's so much carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
"I've haven't been doing anything to lower your grades because you seem to have that covered."
Only if you also have your 5th grade report card and the femur from your great great great aunts corpse.
Load More Replies...Renter application requested a photo of my pet. She's a 13 yo cat, not a pit bull
Left side of Christ, right side of Christ. You're still getting crucified.
A human being named Jesus did exist. Many people in the Bible are based on real people.
Load More Replies...All the blueberries I’ve seen in the UK are clearly blue, both in the wild and in shops. Maybe it depends where you live. There might be different species of blueberries.
Load More Replies...Dec 4, 2024 · Blueberries are called blueberries because of their distinct blue color, which is derived from a natural pigment called anthocyanin found in the fruit’s skin, combined with a …
Load More Replies...That's me. Just missing the crazy Olde English Bulldogge next to me, pushing me to take on the world.
Nah I don’t brother with this malarkey now lol ,loving this housebound life ,NO PEOPLE bar my two kids ,love them ,the rest hard hard pass
Watership Down. It has parts to make you cry from sadness, also cry out of sheer horror. Just like any good kids animated film should.
It was banned in my house when I was a kid. Great book though I highly recommend.
Load More Replies...'Grave of the Fireflies'. Though that might send her straight into clinical depression and a fugue state instead of a crying spell.
The long game: introduce her to Avatar: The Last Airbender animated series. Watch all of it. Then make her watch The Last Airbender movie non-stop on a Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday... she will, at least, cry all weekend at both the tôrtūre of repeatedly viewing a shıt movie and at how atrociously they treated the source material she loved
Hazel is green and brown, not just brown and light brown. I KNOW mine are hazel.
Load More Replies...You shape and decorate a cake AFTER baking. You can't just shape cookie dough and expect it to retain it's shape during baking. It's like 50% butter that just melts everywhere.
Of course you shape cookies before baking! That's why you use cookie cutters to give shape to the cookies. I bake a lot, I've never heard of any recipe that's 50% butter! Sprinkles and sugar go on cookies before baking, other decorations after. All cake decorations are after baking.
Load More Replies...That looks vile !!! I wouldn’t even wanna touch that let alone eat it 😱them things are well I’d rather have Chucky in my house kinda thing
I'm 71 and do it to the 2 women who are also 71, but their birthdays are January and mine is August. When I was coming up to 70 I got 8 months of telling them that they were a decade older.
This is disturbing for me. I had a cousin who suffocated in a corn bin.
Me to being farm born n bred corn silos are bloody dangerous and wheat ones etc
Load More Replies...I'm very busy at the moment, so just INSERT OLD FALLING INTO VAT OF CHOCOLATE JOKE HERE.
The size of him 😱n this ain’t funny , people on farms actually die inside wheat n corn silos 🤬like really !!! They be dangerous n so is this KIDS DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME ,
Unless they're using baby as a nickname for BF/GF.
Load More Replies...I think it wod be better to learn to cook food rather than learning to cook woman. That's kinda illegal in most places
Load More Replies..."OMG!! I forgot to tell you that chicken gives me horrible gas and diarrhea...."
That's what you get when you order "City Chicken" with a (probably racist) Chinese accent.
Id pick it up and eat it with my fingers. No point in pretending to be classy with that
I'm downvoting and refusing to read anything on "X" in protest of Elon Musk being a j*****s.
Did something new happen? I'm only on it for art and stuff relating to my favorite show and a lot of people are talking about moving to Bluesky today, I'm very confused.
Load More Replies...I'm downvoting and refusing to read anything on "X" in protest of Elon Musk being a j*****s.
Did something new happen? I'm only on it for art and stuff relating to my favorite show and a lot of people are talking about moving to Bluesky today, I'm very confused.
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